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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Copying is in our nature. Personal gain is a very general term, every time I read a book I feel that I have gained something. Perhaps a small insight into the mind of another. This is how ideas spread I suppose.
I understand that authors need to be compensated for their work but we should be able to come up with a system that allows for free access to all texts while still compensating those texts creators.
I think it is immoral to tell that someone that they cannot read something because they cannot afford the price of admission. Copyright is holding back the potential of knowledge.
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It is less immoral to tell that someone that they cannot read something because they cannot afford the price of admission than it is to tell them that they cannot eat because they cannot afford food or live because they cannot afford to go to a doctor. There are many free books via pubic domain and libraries and very few free doctors and food resources.
To form an anology: you want to read be able to everything and think that you should have that right. You are angry that you cannot legally do so and make excuses based on your sense of deprivation.
A starving person might want filet mignon served on a silver platter but they are not marching into 5 star restaurants and snatching it off a silver platter. Any food is better than none to most of the world's hungry.
An ill person (one with cancer perhaps) might want to go to a world reknowned treatment center but many would be better off if they had any treatment at all.
IMO you just want an excuse to take something without paying and all of this talk about internet 2.0 is nonsense. Not that I think you are a bad guy, just that you are an immature one concerned only with your own self and no-one else.
Helen